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K2 GTi

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Registered: 21st Oct 04
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23rd Dec 10 at 12:33

Are you better filling the tank, or putting a tenner in here and there?

Just got into a debate, and I seem to use more fuel putting a tenner in here and there..

discuss.

Ryan_G1

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Registered: 29th Aug 05
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23rd Dec 10 at 12:34

There's no difference

Neo

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23rd Dec 10 at 12:36

How is that possible

I find my driving style changes when I'm nearing an empty tank which means I get a few extra miles out of the last gallon or 2.

Could also be the needle in your car doesn't move as much when you only put a tenner in thinking you are running out sooner etc

K2 GTi

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23rd Dec 10 at 12:36

I must take it more easy filling the tank then, thinking how much I've just spent!

Ben G

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23rd Dec 10 at 12:39

i find i use more fuel when i put in a full tank.

the car is also heavier, so if you don't do many miles, you're carrying around all that extra weight for nothing.

if you have a car with a big fuel tank, then thats potentially 50+kg's of extra weight.

i don't change my driving style as such, might be in my mind but the car feels lighter and easier to get the speed up when it's nearing empty rather than carrying a full tank.

alan-g-w

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Registered: 9th Nov 07
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23rd Dec 10 at 12:45

I tend to put in £10-20 at a time. Only so that I've not got money 'tied up' in the car in petrol, in case I need money for something else. If I'm skint at the end of the week I'd rather have twenty quid in the wallet than have it in petrol in the car. Can you tell I'm hopeless at budgeting...

Twiggy

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23rd Dec 10 at 12:50

I put £2 in a time as normally it breaks so pointless haveing £50 in a car just sat there....

Graham88

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23rd Dec 10 at 12:54

If I only put tenners in I'd run out of fuel all the time

I always fill up, but that's cause £10 of fuel only gets me about 30 miles so I'd be filling up all the time

pow

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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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23rd Dec 10 at 12:54

To the top of the tank everytime... can't be fucked with a tenner here and a tenner there!

saj_123

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Registered: 6th Jan 09
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23rd Dec 10 at 12:59

I will put in £10-20 every-time, only ever filled my car to the top once when my mates where putting in petrol but that's the only time.

3CorsaMeal

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:05

lets chuck some rumours out there!!

-keeping a low tank will make the rest of fuel tank rust inside

-having a full tank means the fuel pump does less work

Mike

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:07

I gave up on the putting a tenner in here and there about a week after starting driving and visiting the petrol station 5 times in 5 days. Now it's just not practical with the miles I do. About a month back I did the 5 times in 5 days again but everyone of them was filling up. £270ish of petrol in 5 days

Archie

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Registered: 18th Dec 07
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23rd Dec 10 at 13:09

I just put in whatevers in my pocket when the lights on.

Think i've only full tanked mine twice and it was before i put the XE in, simpy because i dont use the car much.
Done 1k since July

Jambo

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Registered: 8th Sep 01
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23rd Dec 10 at 13:10

quote:
Originally posted by pow
To the top of the tank everytime... can't be fucked with a tenner here and a tenner there!

A2H GO

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:11

Tenner at a time for me. My Clio will do between 80-90 miles to £10 of fuel no matter how I drive it.

If i put £20 I get about 130 miles, fuck knows where the other 20-30 miles go over putting two seperate tenners in

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:14

* you use more going to and from petrol station more times

BUT

* you use more fuel do the extra weight of full tank

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:14

also - a tenner would prob last me a day if i'm lucky :S

ianofbhills

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:17

quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
lets chuck some rumours out there!!

-keeping a low tank will make the rest of fuel tank rust inside

-having a full tank means the fuel pump does less work

also driving with the tank empty all of the time means you are using all of the shit that collects at the bottom.

pow

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:18

I drive like a c-unit if I put a tenner of £54 in

3CorsaMeal

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:18

-if you have never felt the petrol pump auto stop when tank is full, then you are gay

Neo

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:18

quote:
Originally posted by pow
I drive like a c-unit if I put a tenner of £54 in

This tbh, although my tank is £44 atm

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:19

quote:
Originally posted by ianofbhills

quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
lets chuck some rumours out there!!

-keeping a low tank will make the rest of fuel tank rust inside

-having a full tank means the fuel pump does less work

also driving with the tank empty all of the time means you are using all of the shit that collects at the bottom.

the pump has a filter, and there is a fuel filter.

You dont 'use' the crud

Colin

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:19

I just brim the tank when the light comes on, if I was sticking in a tenner at a time i'd never be out of petrol stations!!

A2H GO

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23rd Dec 10 at 13:19

quote:
Originally posted by AK
* you use more going to and from petrol station more times

BUT

* you use more fuel do the extra weight of full tank

I'm not sure people go miles out of their way put petrol in. Most petrol stations are on the roads people use when going somewhere anyway.

pow

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Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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23rd Dec 10 at 13:19

quote:
Originally posted by ianofbhills

quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
lets chuck some rumours out there!!

-keeping a low tank will make the rest of fuel tank rust inside

-having a full tank means the fuel pump does less work

also driving with the tank empty all of the time means you are using all of the shit that collects at the bottom.

Last time I checked, a car had a fuel filter to filter the "said shit" out of the sealed petrol tank

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